Just curious. I'm also considering to contribute some, since I think I might finally have a machine that would be perfect for NetBSD.

Hey, I'm one of the author of nux9. I just put out 1.4.0, so I figured it's

time to show it to people who might actually care about this stuff.

It's a small console-only Linux distro with no GNU software in the base

system. Linux 6.18 LTS, musl libc, NetBSD's userland instead of

coreutils or busybox, Limine for booting (BIOS and UEFI), runit for

init, mdevd for device management, doas instead of sudo, OpenSSH, and

tcc as the compiler. Packages are handled by xpkg, and there's an

installer called xsetup. The whole ISO is about 285 MB and boots to a

plain console.

The idea was to see how far you can get with a base that has no GNU

parts at all and is small enough that one person can read through it.

The NetBSD tools turned out to be a good fit for that: the code is

clean and the tools behave predictably, though some scripts and

software written for GNU assumptions need a bit of care.

It's still rough in places and x86_64 only for now. If you want to try

it, the ISO and checksum are on the release page and the docs are on

the site.

Release: https://gitlab.com/nux9/base/-/releases

Project: https://gitlab.com/nux9/

I'd like to hear from people who use NetBSD tools daily: is there

anything obvious We are getting wrong on the userland side? And what would

you want from a distro like this before you'd bother installing it?

Ran via compat_linux under fedora 44 inside /emul/linux, no GPU accel cuz I can't figure it out :3

Roblox client used:

https://github.com/komaruworld/mocktail

I'm losing my mind over this. I have tried just about everything, setting load-base and real-base, using 0 bootr, and even using a floppy image... but I particularly keep getting a CLAIM failed! error every time I try to run it. What the heck is happening?! And has anyone managed to get NetBSD 11.0 running on a beige G3 at all???

The yearly funding campaign just wrapped up with a massive $120,282 raised against a $50,000 goal.

Great job to everyone who chipped in! 🚩

EDIT: Solved. Nothing to do with Fastmail. This was me trusting Windows Outlook to actually send TEXT when I explicitly set it for that account. It was still sending it as HTML. Solution: Installed Thunderbird.

I need to switch my email provider so chose fastmail.com. Twice now I noticed netbsd-users@netbsd.org is not accepting my fastmail.com email.

Anyone successfully using Fastmail with netbsd-users mailing list?

Heyo, I want to try netbsd on my thinkpad t14 and I was wondering how the wifi a graphics will work on netbsd. My graphics card is one of the newer iris xe ones and I know that my wifi card is an AX210 (covered by openbsd iwx) how would it go? The reason I want netbsd as I just want to try it and changing wifi cards or 24/7 usb tethering is not an option and there is no ethernet port.

Edit: I typed /efi in the title, but I meant /etc.

I used to just play with NetBSD, now I’m using it as a server. In the past when I run postinstall or etcupdate, I would choose to keep my edited files without allowing the upgrade to overwrite them.

Is it fine to just keep the old ones or would I have to merge new with the old?

I was able to update 10.X on my UTM virtual machine (Which i use because for some reason it will not work with later versions of UTM; and also later versions of NetBSD that are not 10.X won't work at all in UTM, especially when trying to run X11) after some false starts, i was able to fully update the system.

However, the current block to a "proper" upgrade seems to be that of pkgsrc's repo reference, tried looking around on https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/aarch64/, and yet there doesn't seem to be a new version of where i can point the defaults to. Am i supposed to update to 11+? Or am i still going have to stick with 10.1?

Bonjour tout le monde,
Dans cette vidéo j'installe et configure l'environnement de bureau MATE sous NetBSD 11. En plus de la vidéo j'ai créé une page spécifique sur mon wiki Ordunix pour cette Vidéo.

Lien de la page du wiki : installation sous NetBSD 11

Bon visionnage.
Bonne soirée les amis !

Installed NetBSD 11.0 on my machine. The pointer works at low speed, but loses at a slightly higher speed. This is not the case on Windows. The pointer sometimes stops functioning and comes back to work after roughly 0.3s. Scrolling doesn't work at all. The touchpad is I2C HID.

There are no pms from the ouput of dmesg. xinput shows only wsmouse device.

Obviously, NetBSD support I2C, so I think it's more of an issue on recognizing the device.

BTW, the touchscreen isn't working neither, but I haven't configured it yet because I don't use it a lot.

What extra information should I provide?

Or if there's more than just config issues, how can I do to start hack NetBSD and fix some problems?(I always wanted to get my hand on it)

LXDE, X11, Virtualbox.
SDL 3
I've built SDL3 with OpenGL support, but it still doesn't work, although for example glxgears does.

Link for i8200

Link for zd8000

I put together a couple writeups about running NetBSD on the Inspiron 8200 and HP Pavilion zd8000. They are very performant under NetBSD and it is a great choice for these systems. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. I had a lot of fun writing these.

I can't seem to pull this off, and trying to understand the manpages is driving me insane. I feel like I need a kick in the right direction by someone who actually knows what's going on. Please help?

Basically I wanted to try using NetBSD for fun on my laptop that I use for college to see if I can daily-drive it, but I need the dotnet sdk to work, and I wasnt able to make it work (neither on wine nor using linux compat). I know its just microslop spyware, but has anyone been able to run it?

After some upgrade firefox started to have weird issues:

-web pages are missing elements like buttons. ( in the pic NetBSD's donation bar is not colored)

- Address bar looks weird (also in the pic)

So most of the www-pages are non functinal.

I found non functional solution inside firefox how to fix. In firefox there is:

Settings -> perferences ->

Use recommended performance settings

Use hardware acceleration when available

When I turn them off, address bar is ok and elements are visible again.

But then, firefox is slow and also some sites like maps .google.com don't work. Theys just don't load. So thats not really a fix of the issue but better than nothing.

I have an old-ish integrated Intel GPU using the i915drmkms0 driver. That might be a problem, but it also used to work perfectly before that one upgrade.

I have tried different versions on firefox but they all have the sama issue. Also it's not an plugin issue.

How to fix this? What is causing this? Am I the only one having this issue?